Norman Ohler

I just have descriptions how he like totally crazy stands in the open lid of the tank and all his people.

Well, they had the meth, but there's no, there's no, maybe they didn't use it.

Maybe he didn't use it, but it looks like he used it.

Like there was also never any reports that all the meth was given back.

I mean, a lot of soldiers write that they take it, but Rommel specifically, I wouldn't write in Blitz that Rommel would take methamphetamine on such a day or something if there was no record for it.

But there is a record for it that Rommel's division used the most meth of any tank division.

So I'll write about that.

That already makes him the crystal fox.

Because, you know, in his division, crystal meth is, you know, rampant.

I mean, Rommel is a very interesting character in general because later he turned, apparently turned against Hitler.

He was part of the conspiracy of the Operation Valkyrie.

He received, you know, the offer to shoot himself in the forest, which he did instead of being tried and executed.

I would say so, yes.

I'm not an expert on the Wehrmacht.

This is a very complex, large organization, but I see most of the officers of the Wehrmacht as not necessarily Nazis in the way that they would, you know, shout Heil Hitler all the time.

They were highly intelligent, highly trained officers.

super professionals that ran a very effective war machine and at one point more and more of these generals realized that the orders that Hitler were given were not really helping and they have their men dying because of it so that creates a lot of tension and that led to the mistake that Hitler did in Dunkirk basically

What Churchill called the sickle cut, which was the idea to storm through the Ardennes Mountains and kind of cut off the British and French troops who were still in the north of Belgium trying to figure out what was going on.

Suddenly the Germans are behind them so that they kind of cut as like a sickle into enemy territory, the sickle cut.

That was so successful that basically the campaign was won already.